i completely get preferring analog media, so if it’s about the sound characteristics (that ‘warmth’), having physical media, etc fair enough. but if the goal of an audiophile is to get the highest quality reproduction of a recording wouldn’t CDs or FLACs be your best bet?
maybe this only really applies for newer music, perhaps digital releases for music recorded analogue are just digitized vinyl or reel to reel recordings but for music produced in DAWs the highest quality version available for that release would surely be either a CD or a digital FLAC release
The other factor that some of us like are the pressing conditions of the actual vinyl. You can take two different physical records and they may sound different based on the condition of not only the pressing, but the life it has lived since pressed. It’s sort of like playing two 50 year old guitars, same make/model but they both have their own sound.